9-year-old boy, whom the least reliable of Caradori's witnesses claimed to have seen in
the company of George Bush at one of Larry King's Washington parties.''
Gary Caradori was a retired state police investigator who had been hired by the Nebraska
Senate to investigate the case, and who had died mysteriously during the course of his
investigations.
Sound crazy? Not to Steve Bowman, an Omaha businessman who is compiling a book
about the Franklin money and sex scandal. `We do have some credible witnesses who say thatYes, George Bush does have a problem.'... Child abuse has become one of the
epidemics of the 1990s,'' Bowman told GQ. Allegedly, one of Bowman's sources is a
retired psychiatrist who worked for the CIA. He added that cocaine trafficking and
political corruption were the other principal themes of his book.
It didn't sound crazy to Peter Sawyer either. An Australian conservative activist who
publishes a controversial newsletter, Inside News, with a circulation of 200,000,
dedicated his November 1991 issue entirely to the Nebraska scandal, focusing on
President Bush's links to the affair. In a section captioned, ``The Original Allegations:
Bush First Named in 1985,'' Sawyer writes,
"Stories about child sex and pornography first became public knowledge in 1989,
following the collapse of the Franklin Credit Union. That is not when the
allegations started, however. Indeed, given the political flavor of the subsequent
investigations, it would be easy to dismiss claims that George Bush had been
involved. He was by then a very public figure...."If the first allegations about a massive child exploitation ring, centered around Larry King
and leading all the way to the White House, had been made in 1989, and had all come
from the same source, some shenanigans and mischievous collusion could be suspected.
However, the allegations arising out of the Franklin Credit Union collapse were not the
first.
Way back in 1985, a young girl, Eulice (Lisa) Washington, was the center of an
investigation by Andrea L. Carener, of the Nebraska Department of Social Services. The
investigation was instigated because Lisa and her sister Tracey continually ran away from
their foster parents, Jarrett and Barbara Webb. Initially reluctant to disclose information
for fear of being further punished, the two girls eventually recounted a remarkable story,
later backed up by other children who had been fostered out to the Webb's [sic].
Mrs. Julie Walters, another welfare officer, who worked for Boys Town at the time, and
who had been called in because of the constant reference by the Webb children and
others, to that institution, conducted these debriefings.
Lisa, supported by her sister, detailed a massive child sex, homosexual, and pornography
industry, run in Nebraska by Larry King. She described how she was regularly taken to
Washington by plane, with other youths, to attend parties hosted by King and involving